Insert Dictator Joke Here

Ok, this is just weird.

Bohemian House

I just finished my first semester of nursing school. Like just now. Wow. Some things I did not think I was capable of:

1) Poop showers.

2) Changing a "brief" of a man twice my height and three times my weight.

3) Not getting depressed about being old, when I'm surrounded by smoldy oldies six hours a day.

4) Consistently waking up at 5 am and not losing my mind, stethoscope, or important paper work.

Guess who conquered all three of those? Uh huh, your old friend Last Unicorn. As I walked off the floor for the last time, I got a little sad, who's going to remind Little Sweden to not eat so fast? Who is going to laugh at No way Jose's terrible jokes? My clinical instructor told me that you'll always remember your first patients. I hate to get all sentimental, but she's totally right.

In six weeks I went from a sweaty stressful mess to a competent confident sweaty nurse in training. Ayy! I can't wait to conquer some more mountains, but I sure will enjoy this break! Maybe I'll even have time to post some more!

Occupy Movement Getting Spicy

Now we're talkin' kids. No one is going to listen till we cause some more ruckus! No one can really make a change but us!

OccupyChi.org

Why don't you get involved?

Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign

I have had so many posts swimming in my head for a while. I haven't been able to gather enough emotional energy to put anything substantial down. This isn't the time, but I would like to share a substantial link. I've been experiencing internal and external turmoil concerning the Occupy Movement. I don't have time or energy to really go into that either, but suffice it to say if they won't even let us occupy a park, why would they listen to any of our other demands? The system is broken we can't wait for others to fix it anymore. Either way, the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign was born out of the Occupy Movement and it's the kind of activism I can get behind.

+1, share, or tweet, this is a movement that's worth getting behind!

It could bring a tear to a glass eye ...

Somedays you just need to listen to a lot of Paul Simon to get through your day, and that's okay.

Yo

Hot damn, it's fall!

ARGH

In my opinion I bombed this week at the comedy bit. I was pretty discouraged for a second, but then I went to the library and got some inspiration. I'm also going to play less Tyrant. It's becoming a serious problem. I'm not even going to link to it because I don't want you to get hooked. It's a slippery slope of xeno warriors and bloodthirsty vampires. Trust me.

Today I'm going to write some fresh bits and practice practice, because Monday is another chance to prove to myself that nursing shouldn't take up ALL my time.

Obama's Farce

"The president at that point was expressing his distaste for what he felt dominated his first two years, which was, as he said, a kind of technocratic approach, that if you get the right people in the room and they have sufficiently high IQs or enough sterling degrees, you are going to get answers, solutions to problems that are wide, vast, and complex. And I think the two years that have passed convinced him that maybe that’s not the case, and he spent too much time thinking, chasing that chimerical beast of the perfect solution that is arrived at through the give and take of analysis and debate." - Ron Suskind from his new book "Confidence Men"

Sorry Obama, our "democratic system" isn't about solutions it's about sensationalism. It was a noble effort. Instead of gathering up IQ points you should have been asking, who is the best showman? Bush was great at that, look at all he got "done."


The Chilean people have some good ideas, but American people/policy makers are too high on patriotism and too bloated with Hubris to make any change that will affect the people that need it most.

YES!

I don't have Tuberculosis!

Pain in the Butt

Whiskey is risky.